Replying To Bainisteoir:  "The management team - I'm assuming Murphy will stay on - now has the summer and autumn to ponder how things went this year. Clear success in terms of the league outcome, patchy bit towards the end of the campaign, we ultimately got there in the end. Wheels came off in the Leinster and Tailteann championships - no sugar coating our inability to maintain momentum from the league final. Maybe they got the best out of what they had and perhaps we lack the ability to mount a run on both fronts - it is a case of one or the other ?

I didn't like the way a few guys walked - with a shallow pool of players we cannot afford to let three leave - lads who all would have a contribution to make - we don't have the luxury of 'hidden talent'. The management of this has always been important, in bad times and it now seems also in successful times too.

Maybe the break will allow them reflect on what is a step-up to senior inter co management and maybe come back a little wiser and because Div 3 will be a big challenge for us containing Kildare, Offaly, Westmeath, Laois, Sligo, Clare, Carlow & Longford."